Dialogue will continue, but only upon receipt of a sign of good faith: such was the message from Leo XIV’s Vatican this week in the latest update of the case which has dominated the minds of the Vatican press corps.
As an aside, Leo XIV’s visit to the Vatican’s own Lourdes grotto on Wednesday, greeting a handful of sick patients and praying at the original altar from Lourdes – gifted to the Vatican in the 1960s – was certainly moving. The private audience he granted on Sunday to the in-house florists and workmen caring for the Vatican City State was also a fitting action on the part of a benign Pontiff, thanking them for their constant work.
